Campus upgrades. Louise Dandurand. Art restitution.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• The Montreal Gazette, the Gazette e-edition, Le Devoir and CBC.ca pick up news of a major infrastructure agreement between the Federal and Quebec governments to renovate and rebuild CEGEP and university buildings in the province. The Gazette quotes president Alan Shepard about the importance of supporting Montreal as a leading center for teaching and research in North America. Combined with money from the institutions themselves and private donations, the new spending on higher education will total $1.1 billion. The Gazette article is reprised by Canada.com.
• Radio-Canada Les années lumière show host Yanick Villedieu pays tribute to Louise Dandurand, Concordia’s former vice-president of Research and Graduate Studies and a former vice-rector of UQAM, who passed away on Sunday, December 11. Listen to the audio through the show page link, "Louise Dandurand, ardente défenseure de la science." Sympatico.ca reprises the text of the Radio-Canada tribute to Dandurand.
• The Globe and Mail (reprised by Newscaf) writes about the return of two Dutch Old Masters paintings among some 400 looted by the Nazis during the Second World War. The article features the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, which continues to search for missing works of art, and notes that the restitution project is spearheaded by Concordia under the leadership of Clarence Epstein, senior director of Urban and Cultural Affairs, who is quoted. Epstein is pictured alongside Canadian ambassador to Germany Marie Gervais-Vidricaire and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly at last week's news conference in Berlin to announce the recovery. 

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